Privacy Engineering for Software Teams: Building GDPR and Data-Deletion Compliance Into Your Systems Instead of Bolting It On After the Fact

Legal forwards you a data subject access request with a 30-day deadline: show this person everywhere you store their data, and delete it if they ask. Your system has a primary database, an analytics warehouse, six years of event logs, three third-party integrations that received a copy of that data at some point, and backups going back further than anyone can find a rollback command for. Nobody designed this system to answer that question. You're finding out live, under a legal deadline, ex...